Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
Yep, that's partly why I never recommend the BDC reticle since, like mrads (the dots on a Mil Dot scope), they magnify/shrink with power increase/decrease. but going from 3 to 9 power adjustments it is still only normal for a 3moa shift of POI at 100 yards. 3moa at 100 is fairly insignificant in the scheme of things with medium to large sized game but predator hunting makes that a pretty big deal to overcome. Yote vitals aren't that big of a target to begin with
But with his being a Nikoplex reticle and having around 10 MOA shifts from 3-9 is some pretty drastic shifting. Glad Nikon is repairing it for him and not continuing to try to blow smoke up his rear with some stupid APP.
Well yeah.....way drastic and unacceptable. It would be nice if Nikon could explain why this is happening to this particular scope and explain why their customer service doesn't know that the app applies to the BDC circles not the cross hair.
Not that it is exclusive to Nikon by any means like I said I have a Bushnell that does it as well, my Burris scopes even move a little and the scope I was helping with the other day was one of those cheap package deal scopes, also a Bushnell I believe.
I was telling the guy it belonged to he should consider saving up for a higher end scope. This subject is one of the reason I gave him.
He said he had never heard of or seen that problem before....we shot the gun and sure enough the poi changed through the magnification range. He had not shot with different magnification at the same distance before and had no idea it was happening after several years of deer hunting with it.
He (like most of us) shot close range at low magnification and long range at high magnification and assumed bullet drop was changing his POI but it was in fact the scope doing so as well.
Ive seen it with my own eyes to many times to not check every scope before hunting